I welcome glute pain with open arms.

You shoulda seen me run today!! All smiles- my legs don't feel 100%....maybe like 85%...but my glutes were on fiiiiiiire! I will take sore glutes over heavy legs any day. I may or may not regret saying that in the near future. Oh well.

Tonight called for a 20min moderate run with 9long hill repeats. The town I live in is kind of on a hill type thing surrounding a lake, so I ran up, then down by the lake, then around to the other side of the lake and found myself the perfect hill overlooking the lake while the sun was setting. Beautiful!

Ok- I am not gonna lie- I wanted to quit after the fifth hill repeat. I clocked it and up the steep hill is about 200m. Felt like my legs wanted to puke...you get the idea...yes I said 'legs'.

So after my warm-up/moderate 20mins, I did the hills x9 which was about 3km in total. My cool-down was 2.3ish km's, so in total I ran 9.3ish km's in total- nothing major compared to all you wonderful long distance runners- and I miss my super duper long runs but training for 5k's are more important. Although I get to do 7ish miles on saturday so I am pretty pumped if my legs hold up!

But oh man did I feel great!! The glute soreness/pain was-if you can picture this- like 100x better than feeling heavy in my legs. I had to keep reminding myself that because I was getting really discouraged the last couple of weeks with that awful lead-like feeling.

But tonight was GREAT, and I am still super pumped about tonights run, which should carry me right through to tomorrow's 12 hour dayshift at work.

(I have decided to make the best of everything, and twelve hours may stink, but I'll make the day a GREAT day!)

Hope you allllll have a wonderful run, my loopies!

Stay safe, and run hard!!

Oh- and to top things off- I chopped my hair off- about 9-10inches!! Here's a pic

I agree with feeling sore after hill repeats than dead legs. My legs haven't had much zip in them recently. At least running hills you feel like you've really accomplished a good training run! Love the hair cut - really cute!

Nice workout! I am currently working to strengthen my Gluteus Medias. My PT says it is the part of the Glute that keeps us free knee injuries, shin splints and other assorted injuries! Nice hair cut....did you give the old 9 to 10 inches of hair to Locks of Love?

Nice workout! I am currently working to strengthen my Gluteus Medias. My PT says it is the part of the Glute that keeps us free knee injuries, shin splints and other assorted injuries! Nice hair cut....did you give the old 9 to 10 inches of hair to Locks of Love?

Thanks I am pretty sure my hair dresser is going to! I couldn't look at the cut off locks once she snipped it. Would have made me sad. No regrets though

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